Great day of shopping

On Monday I was tired of staying home and decided to head to Gallatin to hit Joann’s Fabrics to look for foam to make the seat cushions for the dining room chairs. While I was down there I wanted to go check out the Home Goods store because I’ve seen the commercials lately and I was curious! After I bought the foam I saw there was a TJ Max in the same parking lot so I stopped in there and fell in love with a couple of lamps. Now, normally I don’t buy lamps or have lamps in the house but I’m not kidding these talked to me. They were so cute! There was also another lamp I really loved and it was so funky looking I kept going back to it but since I couldn’t think of anywhere to put it I walked away. Sigh. The 2 green lamps did come home with me though. I had to buy both of them because they were a set and I couldn’t just get one. Look how fun they are!!

A close up of the base.

I love how unusual they look! I think I’m going to put one of them by the sofa and the other in the guest bedroom.

Next I went over to Home Goods and could have spent N’s entire paycheck in there!! Great stuff at great prices!! I loved all the furniture and they had an awesome lamp section there!!! I didn’t buy any of them but I did look for a while. As I was walking around I found a little clearance section stuck over in a corner, that’s where I found the super cute lawn chairs!! I’m in a huge blue and green kick right now and these chairs are awesome!! I looked at the price tag and they were on sale for $15!! Normally they would have been $60 each and I got 4 for the price of one!!! Love it! I think I’m going to throw some pads on the legs and use them as my dining room chairs until I get my real chairs finished.  Haven’t completely decided on that though.

Closer

And can I say that having an SUV with fold down back seats ROCKS!!! I was able to fit everything with no issue and some room to spare. I love my car!!!

Oh and a new picture of the chairs I’m working on. I added the foot rest yesterday and I’m re-sanding all of them. I had started to stain one and it looked terrible. The stain was so blotchy I couldn’t believe it. I hate the coating they put on wood that takes forever to sand off. It’s driving me crazy right now. I sanded for 2 hours yesterday and got 3 chairs done. I guess that means I have at least another 3 hours of sanding to do today to finish the last 3. I hope I have enough sand paper, I feel like I need to buy stock in the brand of sandpaper I use because I go through so much of it! I’ve decided what fabric I’m going to use to cover the seats and I have the foam. I still need to attach the supports on the inside of the frame. Like I said before, I might have them done by the time N comes home for R&R.